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Nine police officers have been questioned under caution on suspicion they helped to cover up an alleged assault on a Hadash lawmaker during a deadly police operation at an unrecognized Arab-Bedouin community in January of this year. The officers, including a superintendent, were questioned Tuesday night, November 28, by the Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department…

The State Prosecutor asked the Justice Ministry on Tuesday, November 21, to reopen an investigation into the police shooting of a Bedouin teacher during an operation to demolish homes in the unrecognized Negev village of Umm al-Hiran at the beginning of the year. In light of new evidence, the ministry’s Police Investigations Department (PID) was…

The Regional Labor Court in Beersheba ordered on Sunday, October 15, Negev Ceramics to postpone all layoffs at its plant in the southern town of Yeroham until the end of the month, a temporary reprieve for the 140 workers who are expected to lose their jobs. With the decision by Judge Shmuel Tenenbaum, all parties,…

The Arad passenger train line that is being proposed for construction will cause significant harm to Arab-Bedouin communities in the Negev desert region in southern Israel. Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights – and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – filed a joint their objection to the plan in…

The new town that Israel is planning to build in the Negev desert upon the ruins of a Arab-Bedouin village slated for demolition, will only be open to Jews with Israeli citizenship or permanent residence recognized by the state. The new Jewish town of Hiran is due to be constructed once the existing Bedouin community…

Israeli authorities secured by a large contingent of police demolished the Arab-Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev region of southern Israel for the 116th time since 2010 on Tuesday morning, August 1. This was the eighth such demolition of the unrecognized village this year. Officials from the Israel Land Authority (ILA), accompanied by police…

Police authorities have decided to open an investigation into the circumstances of the wounding of Hadash MK Ayman Odeh, chair of the Joint List, during the shooting incident that took place six months ago in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. Odeh, filed a complaint with the Department of Police Investigations after…

Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Rights in Israel, has sent an urgent letter to authorities, protesting the sealing off of an Arab-Bedouin village in the country’s southern desert region. Several days ago, Israeli authorities blocked off the only entrance to Umm Bidoun, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Naqab (Negev) desert. According to parents’…

The Police Internal Investigation Unit (“Machash”) within Israel’s Ministry of Justice re-enacted on Wednesday evening, March 15, the events that led up to the shooting death of Yaqoub Abu al-Qee’an by Israeli police during a January 18 demolition raid in the Arab-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev. In the raid a police officer…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is expected to visit Washington this week to meet with President Trump, presumably to discuss the political philosophy they share: power through hate and fear. A government that bars refugees and Muslims from entering the United States has much in common with one that permits Israeli settlers to steal…